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Using nanotechnology to monitor city structures and systems in the Future City

Students participating students in the Future City Competition this year will have to write an essay on the subject 'Keeping Our City Infrastructure Healthy: Using Nanotechnology to Monitor City Structures and Systems.'

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Complete list of FP7 nanotechnology calls for proposal

Cordis has published an overview list of activities in the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) with calls for proposals in 2008 of direct relevance to nanotechnology.

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Forces out of nothing

Stuttgart-based physicists observe the critical Casimir force and use it to cancel out an effect that brings nanomachines to a standstill.

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Rice's West honored as one of Texas' best researchers

Bioengineer earns O'Donnell Award from Texas Academy.

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NISE NanoDays 2008

NISE (the Nanoscale Informal Science Eductaion) Net has identified March 29â??April 6, 2008, as the dates for NanoDays, a week of community-based educational outreach events to raise public awareness of nanoscale science and engineering. NISE Net will provide basic materials and facilitation to support the planning of these events in local communities across the United States.

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Scientists use nano manufacturing processes to construct new materials with tailored properties

Scientists have only been able to take naturally occurring materials so far when it comes to their physics and chemical properties. What they do in their natural form is simply what they do. They can't do any more by themselves, though compounds combining several different materials have been used to extend base abilities. Now, scientists are finding out that through nano construction processes, they can custom build new materials that don't naturally occur in nature, with some amazing properties.

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How nanocones could help you stay dry

Were you soaked in last summer's heavy rainstorms? John Simpson, a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has developed a new super-water-repellent coating that might make a dismal British summer more bearable.

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Munger: Nano center tightens focus to build on early success

The Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the first of five federally funded nanoscience research facilities to come into being within the past couple of years, and it's also been the busiest.

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NIST develops test method for key micromechanical property

Engineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to measure a key mechanical property of such systems: elasticity. The new method determines the Young's modulus of thin films not only for MEMS devices but also for semiconductor devices in integrated circuits.

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Nano gridiron: Cornell physicists create tiny trophy to be awarded on Super Bowl Sunday

While the world's biggest football game is under way, someone will be awarded the world's smallest trophy, created by Cornell nanotechnology specialists.

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Tiny and tinier: EU projects minimize size of semiconductor chips

Two EU-funded projects have been pushing the limits of chip miniaturization, trying to make complementary metal-oxide semiconductor chips (CMOS) even smaller than they already are. While the NanoCMOS project, which was completed in 2006, helped develop 45 nanometer (nm) node semiconductors, its follow-up project NANOPULL is aiming at 32nm and ultimately 22nm features.

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Safenano launches scientific services

The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) based in Edinburgh has launched a range of new services to help companies minimise the environmental and health risks of working with nanomaterials.

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Purging nanotechnology's innovation bottleneck

There is plenty of innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, but bringing new devices to market is often prohibitively expensive. Many micro devices have small production volumes, while design, packaging and testing are costly. Now European researchers are breaking down the barriers by developing design methodologies that focus on manufacturing, packaging and testing.

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Conference: Using nanotechnology for crime prevention

Dr Melanie Webb from the Surrey Ion Beam Centre at the University of Surrey will be giving a presentation on security and crime prevention using nanotechnology at the Royal Society conference on January 17.

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United we compute: FermiGrid continues to yield results

The birth of FermiGrid, an initiative aiming to unite all of Fermilab's computing resources into a single grid infrastructure, changed the way that computing was done at the lab, improving efficiency and making better use of these resources along the way.

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NIST, EC agency partner for better measurements and standards

Enhancing trade between the United States and the nations of the European Union while helping ensure the safety and quality of goods sold in both markets is the goal of a collaborative agreement signed on Dec. 17, 2007.

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